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Saturday Dec 18 – 2:00 pm – Omni CenterJoin Facebook Live event here tomorrow at 2:00 pm.Livestream the Bees!At this workshop Entomology PhD student and wild bee researcher Olivia Kline will give a presentation on the importance of native bees to the local ecology and agriculture. Olivia will give an overview of the results of her research into the surprising variety of wild bees and their critical role as pollinators. She will discuss ways to promote bee populations through native plants and habitat. We will also look at simple ways to build a wild bee house for your yard. We’re limiting […]
–52. WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #52, December 15, 2021 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-52-december.htmlWho Is Destroying Peace? Declining USA Bullies China/Russia, Earth, Outer Space, Itself: Eye-opener Readings about Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Taiwan, China Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Dec 2021 – As I write, serious tension is building–again–around Ukraine, Iran and Taiwan while we could live in a much more peaceful and thriving world. Who and what are the constant peace destroyers? You are the object of a psychological operation to make you have only negative views about China. Read more… Goading China to Go to War Dr. Chandra Muzaffar […]
OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Followup #2, 11-17/12-4, 2021 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/12/omni-un-cop26-glasgow-followup-2-11.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS I reported all I received after 11-17, leaving blank the days my sources did not report on COP26. 11-19Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Guterres’ dark appraisal of COP 26 (“the army of corporate executives and lobbyists”), COP 27 UNA/USA Keyon Rostamnezhad, UNA/USA Today UNA CALL TO TAKE ACTION Read IPCC Report 11-20Baraka, Black Agenda Report, Popular Resistance.org: COP26 Northern Colonial Capitalist Greenwashing. 11-24Prashad and Alexandra, Two gains at COP26: next COP in 2022 and 1.5 degrees Celcius kept alive.Harris, Climate […]
Saturday Dec 18 – 2:00 pm – Omni CenterEntomology PhD student and wild bee researcher Olivia Kline will give a presentation on the importance of native bees to the local ecology and agriculture. Olivia will give an overview of the results of her research into the surprising variety of wild bees and their critical role as pollinators. She will discuss ways to promote bee populations through native plants and habitat. We will also look at simple ways to build a wild bee house for your yard. We might also say that we’re limiting the in-person participants to 20 people (masked and […]
View “The Boys Who Said No” and Roundtable DiscussionView the movie Dec 10-12Gather for the discussion on Dec 12 As Congress debates the future of the draft right now, please join us on Human Rights Day weekend for an online screening of the film and a discussion about how we can take lessons from the past to support today’s resisters. “The Boys Who Said “No” – Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Judith Ehrlich, The Boys Who Said NO! tells for the first time the inspiring story and impact of the draft resistance movement. REGISTER HERE When you register, you will receive a link to […]
Sunday Dec 5 – 7:00 pmIn Person at Omni!Covid safety in mind! Stay tuned!Greetings Omni folks,Dec. Open Mic is right around the corner. My how time flies! We will be hosting at the Omni Center Sunday, Dec. 5th at 7:00 as usual…at least for as long as everyone feels safe. The numbers of covid cases are climbing here in Arkansas…we hope everyone that comes is vaxxed, for the safety of all. I wish we had the where-with-all to do both LIVE an ZOOM of open mic but we are not that savvy.Maybe sharing songs about winter, solstice, holidays???? (Not specifically Christmas Carols…but along the line […]
